I have the same lathe. Mine has the single tumbler gear box and started out as a 10R. I changed out the spindle from a 13" lathe to enlarge the through hole to make it into a 10L. mine has the cast iron leg at the tailstock and enclosed cast iron motor cabinet under the headstock. Mine was war production and ended up at a tech school for colored people at the end of the war.
Man I'm sorry but these videos are blowing my mind. I've watched like 5 so far an every one of them has multiple tricks I've never seen before. Very useful! Thanks
Excellent job. I love your strategy of taping the paper gage around the lathe chuck. I own a Harbor Freight drill/mill and the dials for the X and Y axis have painted on lines and numbers. Now I need to do like you did and engrave the dials.
Very nicely done. I like that lathe. Two of my South Bend lathes have the large dials and I am glad they do. I watched Mrpete do the dials with the saw blade. I have never come across a blade with 100 teeth. I like the meathod you used more.
Very nice job. Check out Winky's workshop he made a set of large dials for his Logan 820 lathe. He used a 100 tooth circular saw blade and indexed off it to make his graduation lines. Did a real good job also. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for the compliment. If you haven't seen it, check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SKEuTXCX8JI.html I went more in-depth in the indexing process, and I addressed the sawtooth method there.
I’m glad you love your Southbend Lathe. I am planning on Buying one on Monday. I can’t wait! Right now I’m using a Atlas 6” Lathe, but I’m ready to move up to something better. Great Video. I will try to do the same on my Southbend.
That's precisely the same move I made. My first lathe was an Atlas 6" Mark II and then I stumbled across a Craftsman branded Atlas 12 in. And then I found the Heavy 10 and probably will stop here. The only way I could go any larger is if my workshop itself got substantially larger.
Nice Project! Just a question...when number stamping, does the number "1" or "7" require less weight drop compare to the number "8" or "5" being they have less contact surface area?
Excellent question! I had a similar thought, but I couldn't tell much difference in practice. Part of the reason I created the stamping jig was to be able to be consistent, and that did work. And for the "1" I did drop the weight from.. 1.5" lower? But for all the other numbers, I just went to the full height. And they all seemed to turn out pretty much the same. Thanks for your input!
Ya know South Bend went to a lot of effort designing that nut that holds the handle on so that it wouldn't chew your knuckles up like a lot of lathes do. Looks like that sharp edge on your brass nut could do some damage .
As tough as MY knuckles are, it would have to be razor sharp Solingen steel before I'd feel it.... LOL. Seriously, good observation. But it hasn't bothered me so far.